Hello, as you can see I am new to the forum. I have been looking at the Youtube videos from CameraLabs for some while now though and made my choice on the D5000 or D90, but less the D90 cause it's out of my Budget and my choice is not yet final.

So for the D5000, I need a SD Card, yet i am not sure what card i need.

Will the Scan Disk Extreme III 16 GB with a read and write speed of 30MB/s be enough?

Yeah the D5000. I think the class is the minimum rated speed so maybe I just got lucky. I find things like autofocus, active D-lighting, noise reduction etc slow down the continuous more than the card selection.

Yep just tried it, it shoots 4 frames per second (12mp) for 10 seconds. But think about it. Do you really need a 40 shot burst? Thats more than a whole roll of film lol

Well i guess it will then be the Xtreme III 16GB or maybe even the 32 GB.

To my personality, I am not the kind of person who buys the "that will just do" items. I tend to buy the better or the best. Goes for clothing, sound system, food etc. - of course within range of my budget. But thanks for confirming that your SD class 2 card worked for the D5000. means my Extreme will defo work.

As I am still learning, which i am doing almost day by day, it just came to my mind to ask you in which format you took those continous shots? In jpeg, RAW or NEF? Cause i was meaning taking those photos in RAW. Did you still get the full 4 fps at 12 MP for 10 secs? I just want to be really sure that my memory card won't hang me in the end.